China's now-notorious "Bat woman" - the head of the Wuhan lab accused of being a possible source for the pandemic - has warned that deadly new mutations of COVID-19 will continue to emerge.
Virologist Shi Zhengli gave the dire proclamation to state-run media this week as she joined calls for people to get vaccinated, according to the South Morning China Post.
"As the number of infected cases has just become too big, this allowed the novel coronavirus more opportunities to mutate and select," Shi told Health Times under the state-run People's Daily, SCMP said.
"New variants will continue to emerge," Shi warned.
The contagion has already repeatedly mutated since first emerging in late 2019 in Wuhan, the city where Shi's Wuhan Institute of Virology carried out pioneering research on almost identical viruses.
China and Shi have repeatedly denied long-running suspicions that the Wuhan lab either created or accidentally leaked the coronavirus, most recently detailed at length in a damning investigation by Republicans.
Shi has previously insisted the rumors are "Baseless" and just "Constantly pouring filth" on innocent scientists.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/06/wuhan-labs-virologist-warns-more-covid-mutations-coming/
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